Hillary: You know, the American political system is the most brutal in the world

posted at 9:21 am on June 16, 2014 by Ed Morrissey

Let’s face it — there was never going to be a good time for a gaffe of this scale, but it’s hard to think of a worse time for it. In Iraq, where Hillary Clinton signed off on the zero option rather than push for Barack Obama to reach an agreement for residual forces, an al-Qaeda spinoff marches on Baghdad in its effort to establish a new Islamist caliphate. In Afghanistan, fifty people died in what is largely considered a successful election campaign. In Burma, which Hillary claims as one of her crowning achievements, the winner of an election from two decades ago has finally been released from home imprisonment while the military junta tries to balance its need for commerce with its desire for power. Syria just held a mockery of an election, which resulted in the continued despotism of the man Hillary once hailed as a “reformer,” Bashar al-Assad. The country to which she gave a “reset” button is overrunning Ukraine.

But you know which country has the most brutal politics? Er, the one her husband dominated for almost a decade:

“Who is the viable woman of either party who could win a primary nomination in 2016, if who not you?” CBS Sunday host Jane Pauley asked Clinton in yet another interview the former First Lady has given during the week of the release of her latest memoir, “Hard Choices.”

“Politics is so unpredictable,” Clinton responded. “Whoever runs has to recognize that the American political system is probably the most difficult, even brutal, in the world.”

Brutal. Hillary wants to run on her record as Secretary of State, in part based on the amount of travel she undertook in that role. It’s indisputable that she traveled around the world, but she doesn’t appear to have learned anything from her travels. Aung Sang Suu Kyi might have a different perspective on brutal in relation to political systems, or perhaps the anti-Chavistas in Venezuela could have informed Hillary of what the word actually means. For that matter, nearly everyone in Syria could have explained it to her back in 2011. In fact, Bob Schieffer tried to do so himself, but she apparently wasn’t listening:

It’s not fair to blame President Obama or Clinton entirely for the lack of U.S. troops in Iraq, since Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to sign the Status of Forces treaty needed to maintain a military presence. But as America’s top diplomat during the failed negotiations, Clinton’s role is sure to be scrutinized.

In an October 2011 interview with CNN, the then-secretary of State downplayed the importance of keeping troops in Iraq, saying American forces would still have plenty of capacity to deal with situations that might arise. “We have a lot of presence in that region,” Clinton said. “In addition to a very significant diplomatic presence in Iraq, which will carry much of the responsibility for dealing with an independent sovereign democratic Iraq, we have bases in neighboring countries.”

Some analysts predicted al-Maliki’s crackdown on the Sunni minority in the country would revive a dormant insurgency, but on Thursday, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, Clinton said the insurgents’ success was unforeseeable. “I could not have predicted, however, the extent to which ISIS could be effective in seizing cities in Iraq and trying to erase boundaries to create an Islamic state. That’s why it’s a wicked problem,” she said.

Voters will have to debate that one, to determine if it’s a satisfactory answer for someone who likely wants to be commander in chief.

If Hillary argues that the American political scene is the most brutal in the world, then this question should be moot. This ignorance and flat-out whining should be a disqualifying event, in a rational world.

The are only two ways Democrats win another national election. If they have another “light-skinned African-American with no Negro dialect” waiting in the wings or if a large contingent of Conservatives sit out another election. This decrepit hag Hillary isn’t winning anything. They can only hide her from the cameras and air brush her photos for so long.

The wildcard is Elizabeth Warren, she really knows how to agitate the base.

Growing up, ‘Donna Reed’ was the most vile icon of female submission and was conjured whenever the thought of a woman doing something domestic was suggested. Today, we have the Donna Reed of politics clammering that the bad ole’ USA is just horrible to the ladies. Free abortion, birth control and a lock on jobs still shows the U.S. as a far worse sentence for women than those wonderful Islamic countries where women enjoy walking around suffocating in portable tents and have thier clitorus hacked off. This is coming from a hag under four inches of professionally applied make-up that also attacked any woman that complained of being sexually assaulted by her husband.

Hillary is being completely honest here. In Hillary’s world, only what affects Hillary is of any significance. Since American politics has not bestowed upon Hillary the respect she so richly deserves, American politics is deeply flawed. Since the American public has not bestowed upon Hillary the adulation she deserves, the American public is deeply flawed.

Hillary is saddened that the United States is such a deeply flawed nation, but Hillary is willing to allow us one more chance to honor her.

In my supermarket parking lot somewhere in Massachusetts I saw the following bumper sticker:

“I’m Ready for Hillary!”

You know, Don’t blame Me, I voted for Hillary. Hillary is the alternative to the things you don’t like in the Obama Administration. She is the alternative. The democrats are not going to own the mess Obama has made, Hillary SHORE is not going to own it, they are going to blame Bush, and say they made a mistake letting O go first, and now it’s Hillary’s turn.

That is, unless Deval Patrick wants to run, he is Axelrods trial run with the Yes We Can slogan…and probably Hillary’s worst nightmare.

Yes we can, wreck Massachusetts Health care. Yes we can. Just as “Do Nothing/How did that Happen?” as Obama. “Let’s” progressives have their way, by barely voting present, and has no idea how things went wrong; and likes vacations as much as Miche O.

Whoever runs has to recognize that the American political system is probably the most difficult, even brutal, in the world.

Yeah, and after you and Billy-Bob left the White House you ‘struggled’ to buy ‘houses’ and stuff. Hillary’s ‘poor me’ act is getting really stale and her poll numbers reflect it. She’s starting to reek like three-day-old fish.

Considering she joyfully participated in the Politics of Personal Destruction, which her husband (y’know, the one who was supposed to have all the good ol’ boy charm) practiced constantly, it’s just a tad hypocritical.

Hillary: You know, the American political system is the most brutal in the world

LOL. North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un is going to be so disappointed. He though his was the most brutal. (And his dearly-departed uncle, whom he reportedly had executed by feeding him to a pack of hungry dogs, might disagree too).

Yes.. When you lose an election in the U.S., you pick yourself up and get a multi-million dollar lobbying job on K-Street. When you lose in the Middle East, you are executed along with your entire extended family and your rivals brutally gang rape and torture your daughters and wife in front of you before killing everyone.

This is really why I’m not that terrified of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. The idea of Hillary Clinton is better than the actual candidate and personality. Clinton has been making a gaffe a minute since she started her unofficial campaign a few weeks ago. The only way the GOP screws this up is by nominating an unelectable candidate (See Bush, Jeb or Cruz, Ted.)

This is really why I’m not that terrified of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. The idea of Hillary Clinton is better than the actual candidate and personality. Clinton has been making a gaffe a minute since she started her unofficial campaign a few weeks ago. The only way the GOP screws this up is by nominating an unelectable candidate (See Bush, Jeb or Cruz, Ted.)

This is really why I’m not that terrified of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. The idea of Hillary Clinton is better than the actual candidate and personality. Clinton has been making a gaffe a minute since she started her unofficial campaign a few weeks ago. The only way the GOP screws this up is by nominating an unelectable candidate (See Bush, Jeb or Cruz, Ted.)

Illinidiva on June 16, 2014 at 11:40 AM

Hillary will have the MSM and “girl power” on her side. She will be very difficult to beat.

Figures you would say this, considering your nasty hatred of all of us backwards, southern yokels. Crawl back on your bar stool and suck a few more up, libiot.

bimmcorp on June 16, 2014 at 11:52 AM

Well, I agree with the concern about the GOPe picking a lousy candidate – and I think Jeb Bush would be a loser, but I don’t put Ted Cruz in that same category. I’d love to see Cruz get the nomination.

Obviously she has not seen fistfights in other countries governing bodys-or listened to the UK prime minister take questions in the house of commons.now that stuff is brutal!

gerrym51 on June 16, 2014 at 10:45 AM

I was going to say the exact same thing, but decided to read prior comments. Even Meryl Streep, a committed liberal, showed how much more brutal it was for Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in Iron Lady than it ever has been for Shrillary.

If Hillary argues that the American political scene is the most brutal in the world, then this question should be moot. This ignorance and flat-out whining should be a disqualifying event, in a rational world.

Ah, but fortunately for Hillary, she has the Democrats, who will gladly vote for her and not give two shits about any of her incompetence, her gaffes, etc. She has a v4gina, you see, and she’s a Clinton, and would be the first woman precedent, so none of the things that might trouble rational, sane citizens will bother liberals at all, and they will – they WILL – turn out in droves to vote for her, along with a fair number of guilt-driven ‘moderates’ and even some wooly-headed ‘conservatives’ (pundits, mostly) who will just *love* the crease in her pantsuit.

The MSM would normally have loved to have given Hillary a free pass on her lies about getting shot at in Bosnia and done everything in their power to prop her up, but they realized that she needed to be eliminated as a threat to their chosen messiah in 2008. So, they attacked her ruthlessly. Hillary was treated like a Republican by the MSM, and it was funny.

I’ll never forget watching Bill Clinton’s reaction during the 2008 primary. He was shocked when the MSM suddenly turned 180 degrees on him. Instead of carrying his water, they went on the attack. His confusion and impotence was fun to watch.

So, will the MSM now begin shilling for Hillary as we head into 2016, or will the Great Souring of 2008 have residual effects?

My comment was directed toward that bigoted, drunken sot from Chitcago who thinks of herself as some sort of diva…More like a divot to me.

bimmcorp on June 16, 2014 at 12:32 PM

I don’t really know or recognize the diva, but I pretty much got that – and I’m not disputing your comment.
I do absolutely disagree with her(?) lumping Ted Cruz into the same category as Jeb Bush – clear indication she’s not conservative, that’s for sure.

Figures you would say this, considering your nasty hatred of all of us backwards, southern yokels. Crawl back on your bar stool and suck a few more up, libiot.

bimmcorp on June 16, 2014 at 11:52 AM

Ted Cruz comes off as an unpleasant know-it-all and a fire-breather. Apparently, people in the Senate like him about as much as they like Eric Cantor in the House. But hey, I guess that the GOP has to lose three in a row for you guys to figure this out.

Hillary will have the MSM and “girl power” on her side. She will be very difficult to beat.

DisneyFan on June 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM

I think that the MSM is less invested in girl power than they were in the first black president. Still a hard row to tow, but Clinton makes it easier with her stupid gaffes like this one.

I don’t really know or recognize the diva, but I pretty much got that – and I’m not disputing your comment.
I do absolutely disagree with her(?) lumping Ted Cruz into the same category as Jeb Bush – clear indication she’s not conservative, that’s for sure.

Ah, but fortunately for Hillary, she has the Democrats, who will gladly vote for her and not give two shits about any of her incompetence, her gaffes, etc. She has a v4gina, you see, and she’s a Clinton, and would be the first woman precedent, so none of the things that might trouble rational, sane citizens will bother liberals at all, and they will – they WILL – turn out in droves to vote for her, along with a fair number of guilt-driven ‘moderates’ and even some wooly-headed ‘conservatives’ (pundits, mostly) who will just *love* the crease in her pantsuit.

Midas on June 16, 2014 at 12:21 PM

I increasingly sense this myself, especially after the last two elections, and it is truly frightening. They truly are ‘drones’, and their uncritically emotional choices are hurting the country.

When Saddam Hussein took power, he had all of his opponents in the legislature taken out of the National hall one by one and shot. This was one of the reasons John Kerry, John Edwards, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton voted for the war they now claim Bush started all by himself.

We need to fight Hillary’s incompetent “girl power” with competent girl power–run a female Governor for VP who has a record of accomplishment, and can speak clearly about it. Nikki Haley for VP?

Steve Z on June 16, 2014 at 12:55 PM

Susana Martinez for President. Why stop at VP?

Conservative speech is often viewed as “fire” by people that hate conservatives.

Cruz reminds me of Obama – know-it-all Ivy league brown noser.

Winning what?

blink on June 16, 2014 at 1:16 PM

The GOP winning the Presidency? It seems like people want the perfect rather than the good. Cruz is way too conservative to win; he has an unpleasant personality. Paul, while interesting, is probably too conservative to win. Run a moderate conservative governor instead with a track record on getting things done.. I’d say Susana Martinez might be a good fit.

The GOP winning the Presidency and doing what with it? Passing an amnesty? Passing more affirmative action, anti-white and feminist laws? Creating more government programs and departments? Starting more wars?

Politics isn’t only elections, it’s governing. Election people who are going to govern against your values and interests is useless.

This will be the boiler plate response to these questions. Sad to say and quite unbelievably, this reply will work.

StubbornGreenBurros on June 16, 2014 at 1:54 PM

There’s even some truth to it… until you remember that while Bush had to operate in a continuous mass media firestorm, Obama had had cover from the media and every other liberal institution (academia, legal and so on), especially cover to repudiate and reverse every Bush policy he didn’t like.

Nobody could have been less shackled to the work of his predecessor. If he had chosen to close Gitmo, skip the surge in Afghanistan, stop starting wars (e.g. Libya) etc., Obama’s supporters in the mass media would have done nothing but sing Hosannas to his greatness.

What he continued freely and increased of his own will, Obama is accountable for – or would he if there was a free press, rather than a liberal monopoly.

The GOP winning the Presidency and doing what with it? Passing an amnesty? Passing more affirmative action, anti-white and feminist laws? Creating more government programs and departments? Starting more wars?

Politics isn’t only elections, it’s governing. Election people who are going to govern against your values and interests is useless.

David Blue on June 16, 2014 at 1:54 PM

You got that right.
Even if we were able to get a RINO elected, what good would it do?
There wouldn’t be much of any difference from what we would get if a Dem wins again.
He11 – the RINOs in congress are acting like Dems – and for many of them it’s not even Dem-lite.

The only way the GOP screws this up is by nominating an unelectable candidate

Illinidiva on June 16, 2014 at 11:40 AM

The Republican Party is very good at nominating unelectable candidates. And if you think that the media have been playing up Hillary’s gaffes over the last week or so, imagine how they will treat the Republican candidate’s gaffes — or any comment that Democrats decide to treat as a gaffe, regardless of whether it is or not. You can expect the Republican nominee to get brutalized by the media.

“In addition to a very significant diplomatic presence in Iraq, which will carry much of the responsibility for dealing with an independent sovereign democratic Iraq, we have bases in neighboring countries.”

Do you still get to have a significant diplomatic presence (that’s assuming that the diplomats can man a 50 cal. machine gun) when you evacuate your embassy?

Hillary… we could flood Iraq with diplomats and I don’t see their “presence” doing much to stop the bullets and blades of the prehistoric animals currently roaming the landscape.

I didn’t think that they were good candidates, but the rest were even worst. Did you really think that Rick-y Santorum was going to win in 2012 against Obama? OFA would have had a field day reminding people of Santorum’s odd statements against working women and birth control and tying him directly to Todd Akin.

Even if, and that’s a big IF, she were questioned on this she would just cackle and say everybody knows that’s not what she meant. And she’ll get away with it.
She does try to have it both ways. Her gender has no bearing on her job but if she’s criticized in the least she’s the victim of sexism.

I don’t really know or recognize the diva, but I pretty much got that – and I’m not disputing your comment.
I do absolutely disagree with her(?) lumping Ted Cruz into the same category as Jeb Bush – clear indication she’s not conservative, that’s for sure.

dentarthurdent on June 16, 2014 at 12:41 PM

Ask the drunken diva how she feels about Americans living in the south, my friend…she’s a real pip, that one.

Hillary: You know, the American political system is the most brutal in the world

Pure idiocy. I might believe it if
A. Completely stupid, moronic, brain dead liberals who just swallows whatever this fascist b1tch shovels will eat this up without a second thought (or a first thought really)

or

B. The piles of dead liberals are so high they stop traffic in all major cities.

Since, much to my chagrin, B. hasn’t happened, the only reason she thinks that statement would fly is because A. is true for the most part of anyone who votes liberal.

Well, you have absolutely zero chance of doing so without us backwards Southern ‘confederates’, you drunken sot. You are just another Chitcago elitist snob, like your wonder boy, Barky O’Blama.

bimmcorp on June 16, 2014 at 3:19 PM

Yes. It is even more of a pity that the Southern rednecks don’t understand that they need to appeal to moderate suburbanites in PA, OH, and VA to win. Or that they don’t realize the Republican party has maxed out on white people willing to vote for them.

And I have never voted for Obama in my life. I didn’t even vote for him when he was up against Alan Keyes in 2004. I just left that race blank.